How large / where is is your place if your neighbors pay $8000 a month to rent it?
I didn't say my rent was $4,000 a month. I said my monthly nut (rent, utilities, insurance, ISP, excluding food, clothing, transportation, medical expenses, etc., etc., etc.) was ~$4,000/month.
My place is significantly smaller than a double-wide trailer. And my rent bill is my business and that of my landlord.[0]
Have a good day!
[0] Since rent stabilized leases have an upper limit to the rent charged to remain rent stabilized, you can get an upper limit to that with a little research. Good luck.
Edit: Added additional info about my rent.
My renter's insurance is ~$100/year. The bigger issue (for me at least) is the ~$1,000/month (plus $600 deductible and $40 copays) I pay for crappy health insurance.
> I pay about half in rent what my neighbors do.
I assumed that most of your $4,000 a month was going towards rent, which would mean your neighbors are paying close to $8,000 a month. That's a very large number so I asked about that.
This was apparently wrong enough for you to want to correct me (without saying what your neighbors actually pay). That made me then try to understand if you have really high fees. This also doesn't seem to be the case.
I'll clarify. Again. The rent on most of the apartments in my building is ~2x what I pay in rent. One of a trio sharing an apartment pays less for rent (rather, mommy and daddy do) than I do for rent.
I have other expenses as well.
I don't give lots of detail because I'm not interested in publishing my budget online. If that perturbs you, my apologies.